Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions

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Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions is written by Martin Summers and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190852666 (ISBN 10) and 9780190852665 (ISBN 13).

Summers documents the history of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, a federal mental institution in Washington, DC, in relation to that city's African American community. He sheds light on the intersections of the historical process of racialization, medical and cultural understandings of insanity, the exercise of institutional power, and individual and collective agency.